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Hittite phonology is the description of the reconstructed phonology or pronunciation of the Hittite language. Because Hittite as a spoken language is extinct, thus leaving no living daughter languages, and no contemporary descriptions of the pronunciation are known, little can be said with certainty about the phonetics and the phonology of the language. Some conclusions can be made, however, by noting its relationship to the other Indo-European languages, by studying its orthography and by comparing loanwords from nearby languages.
characters. Hittitephonology is the description of the reconstructed phonology or pronunciation of the Hittite language. Because Hittite as a spoken...
determine the nature of Hittitephonology have been more or less overcome by means of comparative etymology and an examination of Hittite spelling conventions...
question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of cuneiform script. The Hittites (/ˈhɪtaɪts/) were an Anatolian Indo-European people who formed one of the...
media related to Hittite art. HittitesHittite religion Hittite language Hittite inscriptions Hittite grammar HittitephonologyHittite cuneiform Hittitology...
attested in cuneiform tablets in Bronze Age Hattusa, the capital of the Hittites. Palaic, which was apparently spoken mainly in northern Anatolia, is generally...
Asia portal Hittite cuneiform is the implementation of cuneiform script used in writing the Hittite language. The surviving corpus of Hittite texts is preserved...
Lord Edwin E. Hitti Asia portal History of the HittitesHittite language Hittite grammar Hittitephonology Assyriology Egyptology "Hethitologie Nebenfach...
Anatolia, part of present-day Turkey. The best known Anatolian language is Hittite, which is considered the earliest-attested Indo-European language. Undiscovered...
to back them up. This changed when Hittite was discovered and deciphered in the early 20th century. Hittitephonology included two sounds written with symbols...
Indo-European language origin. Part One, Towards a Hittite Historical Grammar, contains a description of Hittitephonology and a discussion of the sound laws and...
The grammar of the Hittite language has a highly conservative verbal system and rich nominal declension. The language is attested in cuneiform, and is...
the cuneiform record. Akkadian cuneiform was itself adapted to write the Hittite language in the early second millennium BC. The other languages with significant...
region in which the Luwians lived. Luwiya is attested, for example, in the Hittite laws. The two varieties of Proto-Luwian or Luwian (in the narrow sense...
Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. Studies in Hittite Historical Phonology. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1984, ISBN 3-525-26220-5...
before Indo-Europeans had learned to use chariots for war. Comparison of Hittite agricultural terms with those of other Indo-European subgroups indicates...
multiple languages including Sumerian, Eblaite, Hurrian, Elamite, and Hittite. Akkadian is named after the city of Akkad, a major centre of Mesopotamian...
Anatolian languages spoken in most of the adjacent countries, such as Hittite. The apparent similarity of the Phrygian language to Greek and its dissimilarity...
language "Hattic" to distinguish it from Hittite, the Indo-European language of the Hittite Empire. The Hittites referred to the language as "hattili" (there...
that the Hittites where a much more influential culture than previously thought with their own art and language. Sayce concluded that the Hittite hieroglyphic...
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